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  • 2013
  • TV-MA
  • Tribeca Film
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2013
  • TV-MA
  • Tribeca Film
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary After years of struggling to conceive with her husband, Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) has given up hope of having a baby on her own. But when her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan) finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand, an unexpected solution arises: Andie offers to have the baby and give it to Lizzie. The couple agrees to the plan...

Directed By: Jessie McCormack

Written By: Jessie McCormack

  • 2013
  • TV-MA
  • Tribeca Film
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2013
  • TV-MA
  • Tribeca Film
  • 1 h 27 m

Expecting

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary After years of struggling to conceive with her husband, Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) has given up hope of having a baby on her own. But when her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan) finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand, an unexpected solution arises: Andie offers to have the baby and give it to Lizzie. The couple agrees to the plan...

Directed By: Jessie McCormack

Written By: Jessie McCormack

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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20% Mixed
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80% Negative
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40
Nov 25, 2013
McCormack admirably tries to squeeze a lot of real-world messiness into Expecting, but her film’s essential phoniness refuses to make room for it.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW
38
Dec 6, 2013
Expecting is a fairly laidback movie that isn't serious and isn't funny and isn't much of anything.
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30
Jan 1, 2014
The movie's early promise fades, however, as an Apatowian crassness descends upon the comic situations, churlishness gets mistaken for rawness, and sweetness starts to feel manipulative instead of natural.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
30
Dec 9, 2013
Even when judged by the standards of broad farce, however, Expecting repeatedly strains credibility and defies logic in ways too glaring to ignore.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW
25
Dec 5, 2013
All around, the performances are fine, but they can’t move past the script from first-time director Jessie McCormack. She’s created a group of people that you’d avoid at a party, and being stuck with them for an hour and a half makes you feel like you’re being punished for doing something really awful.
By Kimber Myers FULL REVIEW

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Production Company FilmColony, Unique New York Productions
Release Date Dec 6, 2013
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating TV-MA
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Tagline What's a baby between friends?
Website http://tribecafilm.com/expecting
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Awards

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• 1 Nomination

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